Nick Laird

Nick Laird was born in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, in 1975. His poetry collections are To A Fault (London, Faber and Faber, 2004); and On Purpose (Faber and Faber, 2007).
His novel is Utterly Monkey (London, Fourth Estate, 2005).
He lives in London where he is married to the novelist Zadie Smith.